News featuring Burial

Sunday 9th June

• “Why we're watching: Half Moon Run”

  The psychedelicate band that's doing the festival rounds

  Hey now! What's that sound? It's Half Moon Run.

  Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

Friday 7th June

• “New band of the day: Lorde (No 1,528)”

  This NZ teen is about to make a big splash beyond blog-land. Think Lily meets Lana, only cuter and more cutting

  Hometown: Takapuna, New Zealand.

  Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

Monday 3rd June

• “Cash-Strapped Cities Struggle To Bury Their Unclaimed Dead”

  Detroit, like many other American cities, is so broke it cannot handle the costs of a timely burial for people who die but are not claimed by family members. Some local advocates are using their own resources to help lay the city's poorest to rest.

  Read the complete article at www.npr.org

Friday 24th May

• “Still Life Still Announce 'Mourning Trance'”

  Last month, Toronto's Still Life Still hinted that their next record was on the way via the stream of new tune "Burial Suit," and now the act have revealed their plans in full. The upcoming LP, titled Mourning Trance, drops August 20 through Arts & Crafts. A press release explains that the ensemble tracked the record in Toronto with producer Alex Bonenfant (METZ, Crystal Castles) and it came out of a year's worth of demoing. As previously reported, many songs were scrapped along the way, but the band ended up crafting 10 keepers for Mourning Trance. This includes "Burial...Read More

  Read the complete article at exclaim.ca

• “Vondelpark: Seabed”

  London trio offers grooves and hooks to spare on its debut LP, rising to the top of the post-xx fray.

  In the last few years, plenty of acts have politely shuffled into the space between that exists between, say, James Blake and the xx. That space, filled with pregnant silences and rippling bass and hushed vocals, has become vaunted real estate as dozens of groups seem to discover Burial and Voodoo at the same time, gently jockeying for position in one of the young decade’s singular musical trends. But the three young gentleman in London’s…

  Read the complete article at www.popmatters.com

Tuesday 21st May

• “The Burial Release “Wretched Restless Forms” Lyric Video”

  The Burial have launched a lyric video for a new track from their coming album “In The Taking Of Flesh“. Below you can check out the track “Wretched Restless Forms” from the aforementioned album, which will be in stores on July 09th via Facedown.

  Read the complete article at www.theprp.com

Saturday 11th May

• “Emotions Run High After Boston Bombing Suspect's Burial”

  Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body was taken to a cemetery in central Virginia. It took about two weeks to find a place willing to bury him. Now, some in Virginia are raising objections and concerns.

  Read the complete article at www.npr.org

Thursday 9th May

• “Ghostpoet: Some Say I So I Say Light – review”

  (PIAS)

  There's a clue to this album's contents in its title – a phrase that suggests a deeper meaning, if only you could work it out. Ghostpoet is a former Mercury prize nominee whose style is someplace between MC and a performance poet. His flow is highly reminiscent of Roots Manuva, but his lyrics lack the rapper's clarity, bending more towards elliptical imagery and phrases that run into each other without much concession to logic. It's a technique effective in creating a mood – something eerie and mysterious – but also limiting when it comes to articulating a message to the listener. Within the same song – for example, in Thymethymethyme – you can get a hint of loneliness ("Maybe it's time to find out where I really want to be") but also a great dollop of balderdash ("See you again soon, straight sand dune, I had overweight dreams of the moon"). The production, by the…

  Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

• “John Murry – review”

  Bush Hall, London

  His house burned down, he famously "died" for a few minutes and he already owns his own burial plot: tonight the sticky vinyl letters "Tim" on John Murry's guitar are a tribute to his producer Tim Mooney, who died last June. Music may be a happy epilogue to a grim personal story, but when it comes to artists like this, there will always be a simple thrill in standing close to someone who has been to the dark side. A woman cries out for Little Colored Balloons, the broad, beautiful account of his heroin overdose, and there's just a flicker of something – frustration? contempt? – on stage: "I am here for your edification!" Murry replies, "I'll bleed for you. You fucking clowns … "

  Read the complete article at www.guardian.co.uk

Wednesday 1st May

• “After The Burial Guitarist Comments On Digital EP & New Album Sessions”

  After The Burial guitarist Justin Lowe has given the below updates regarding the bands progress with their new album and their newly-released digital EP, “This Life Is All We Have” (stream it here.) In regards to the new EP: “I’d like to extend a HUGE thank you to everyone who has checked out the streams or even picked up a copy of this new EP. We had always toyed around with the idea of revisiting some of these old jams, … Continue reading →

  Read the complete article at www.theprp.com